Modulation of maize growth, yield and soil enzymes activities by introducing wheat straw mulching and tillage practices

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06394-9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06394-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06394-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11104-023-06394-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Modulation of maize growth, yield and soil enzymes activities by introducing wheat straw mulching and tillage practices

Original language description

Aims: Tillage and mulching are two agricultural practices that play a crucial role in improving crop growth. Tillage involves mechanical manipulation of the soil, which helps improve soil aeration, drainage, and root penetration. By loosening the compacted soil, tillage allows plant roots access to nutrients and ensures adequate drainage, which is essential for both healthy root development and optimal crop growth. However, their combined influence on soil enzymatic activities along with maize growth still needs further investigation. Methods: That&apos;s why current study was conducted with two factors (different tillage techniques and mulching levels) and four replications. No tillage, conventional tillage and deep tillage practices was done with and without wheat straw mulching (8 kg/ha). Results: Results showed that deep tillage with mulching caused significant improvement in days to emergence (9.98%), emergence/m2 (12.18%), plant height (8.97%), leaf area/plant (17.33%), grains/ear (6.91%), 1000 grains weight (4.72%), grains yield (1.88%) and biological yield (13.29%) over no tillage and no mulching. It also significantly improved total soluble sugar, total protein, free proline, total carbohydrates, urease activity, alkaline phosphatase activity, invertase and catalase activity (D) compared to no tillage and no mulching. Conclusion: In conclusion, deep tillage with mulching is a better technology than conventional tillage and no tillage with mulching to improve maize growth and quality attributes. It can also regulate the soil enzymes and health in positive manner. More investigations are suggested at field level using different cereal crops for declaration of deep tillage with straw mulching as best treatment for enhancement of their production.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plant and Soil

ISSN

0032-079X

e-ISSN

1573-5036

Volume of the periodical

496

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

699-719

UT code for WoS article

001122489600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85177558170